Anime anime/manga question

[Guest shyner]

I'm a relatively new fan of anime/manga, and just have a few quick questions. Does all anime come from manga first, or are there some that stand on their own without a manga predecessor? And are there any mangas that came from an anime?

[AnimeHeroX]

Usually an anime comes from the manga or from stylized short in a big magizine like new type or animeamerica. this transtion usually always works but their are a few rare cases where it doesn't work like BOBOBOBOBO that anime and manga suck. :flush:

[Fyxe]

[size=1][color=slategray]It all depends. Usually a manga is created before an anime is, like AnimeHeroX said. But, an animation studio can also work on an anime without there ever being a manga before it. Usually if this anime is popular, they will decide to release a manga as an after thought.[/color][/size]

[Raina]

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Just like Blase and AnimeHeroX said, there usually is a manga predecessor.

But I have 1 good example of an exception: Pokemon. Pokemon was first a GameBoy game. But because it was so popular, they decided to make manga[B][I]s[/I][/B] and an anime. Yes, manga[B][I]s[/I][/B]. There are actually a lot of Pokemon mangas. I can't list them all for you, since I don't know them all. Sorry. :animeswea

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[Dagger]

Nowadays, more and more anime are based on novels or games (both regular video games and visual novels). So I would actually say that the number of manga-based productions is decreasing slightly due to the surge in titles adapted from games or novels; here are some assorted examples of both.

Novel-based anime: Kino's Journey, Slayers, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Scrapped Princess, Boogiepop Phantom, Crest of the Stars, Full Metal Panic, Kyou Kara Maou, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Shakugan no Shana, Twelve Kingdoms.

Game-based anime: Nightwalker, AIR, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Fate/stay night, Lunar Legend Tsukihime, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Kanon, To Heart, Shuffle, Clannad (not out yet, but I had to mention it!).

~Dagger~

[Guest Ashes]

Most anime does come from Manga. But lots do not.

And in some cases the original idea came from manga, but it was twisted up and made into a totally different story for the anime. Take wolfs rain for instance. Completly different from the manga.

[Nony]

That's also true, there are a lot of anime that take a completely different turn from the manga/novel/video game. One example is Fullmetal Alchemist.
But here's an example that relates more to the original question: Record of Lodoss War. This was originally written by Ryo Mizuno (and someone else I can't remember), then made into a popular video game in Japan. There were also seven Lodoss books, but I'm not sure when those were first published. Either way, the first anime was then made in 1990, and then the manga was released in 1994, which is apparently closer to the real story than the anime.

[Dagger]

[quote name='Ashes'] Take wolfs rain for instance. Completly different from the manga.[/quote]
That's because the Wolf's Rain manga was based on the anime. Take care not to assume that the manga version of something or other came first simply because the manga version exists.

~Dagger~

[sikaurai]

[quote name='AnimeHeroX']Usually an anime comes from the manga or from stylized short in a big magizine like new type or animeamerica. this transtion usually always works but their are a few rare cases where it doesn't work like BOBOBOBOBO that anime and manga suck. :flush:[/quote]
(uh. . . BOBOBOBOBO. . .shudder) And of course, because I have one-track mind, let's not forget Samurai7, which did not involve a manga at all, neither before nor afterward . . . it was actually based off an old black-and-white movie produced by Akira Kurosawa, and it was waaaaaayyyy different than the new version.

[jakewise]

Animes usually come from Manga, yes.
In Japan, there are 3 big name weekly Manga Magazine.
"Jump", "Magazine", and "Sunday".
Many famous Animations title come from the Jump Magazine.
Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X was it?),
And there are dozens of bi-weekly or monthly Manga magazines.
For example, "Oh my Goddess" was published thru a magazine called "Afternoon KC".

For animations, there are 3 large categories.
#1. Original Animation
#2. Based on something else, but don't really follow the original
#3. Based on something else and (mostly) follow the original story

Example of #1 is ... like all Ghibli movies. they are (well, Nausica has original but) not based on a manga.
Example of #2 are... Dragon Ball GT, Ghost in the Shell SAC series, etc... they use characters from Manga, but new stories are made for Animation.
Example of #3 are most of the series Animations. but as I wrote "mostly", animation is usually not completely the same. Some animations try very hard to be like the original manga tho. We say these Animes are "Gensaku ni Chujitsu" (they stick to the Original).

And ahh... 1 comment on BO-BOBO... it's for kids :p and there are many animes that are ... like that... unfortunately :animeswea
I think the original manga was published in "KoroKoro Comics" and the target age is under 12 so you know... lol
it's fun for kids to watch people fighting with their nose hair, lol

For Record of Lodoss War, it's written by Ryo Mizuno and Group SNE. but original idea was from Hitoshi Yasuda. It has a few mangas that aren't the same with the original novels.
oohh.. post got too long...